Secondary education Nîmes

The professional Lycée Voltaire has a sommelier section with a complementary mention (level V diploma), which is prepared in one year in addition to another diploma in the hotel-catering sector (CAP, BEP…). Diploma also accessible after three years of experience in the profession. Professional tasting uses personal skills: smell wine, absorb a sip, hold it in mouth before recracher, guess the aromas, recognize the grape varieties, discern the vintage, learn the specific vocabulary used to describe his dress, describe the wine and the final knowledge to associate with the best wines and dishes. The learning also covers the history of vineyards, the supply, storage, maintenance of wines and spirits, from the material from the cellar to the distribution and to the table service at the right temperature. Sommelier school is interested in wines and any commercialized beverage from mineral water to strong alcohol.

Information and Guidance Centre for Students and Parents. Information and documentation on educational or professional fields. In addition to hotlines in public colleges and colleges, two IOC are open in town. Parents and students can receive personalized information about the direction of education in secondary and higher education.

Opened in 2008 in Nîmes, the regional school for the 2nd chance put on a new approach to teaching. One foot in active life, the other at school, student trainees - one-hundred registered per class - were previously remote from the school system. They will again have the opportunity to follow a cycle of lessons and practical work, out of traditional schemes, while doing, alternately, the learning of active life. Over one year, individual education aims to re-learn to read, write, count, and give the concepts of computers, a foreign language, reading the press. This basic instruction includes immersion in the workplace, but also a reminder of certain codes of citizenship, the taste of culture, reading. A very interesting pilot experience funded mainly by the regional council.